The European network Church on the Move commits itself importantly in the project Council 50: - Five members of the EN-RE participated actively in the organization team : Henk Baars, François Becker, Vittorio Bellavite, Raymond Godefroy, Christian Weissner. This team met 6 times in Rome and once in Vienna. - The treasurer of the project is Jean Pierre Schmitz who opened a special account; - An important work of translation was supplied by Raquel Mallavibarrena for Spanish and Sigrid Grabmeier for German. - An important help was supplied by Mauro Castagnaro for the contact with the communities of Latin America and by Didier Vanhoutte for the groups of Asia. What makes at least 10 people.strongly involved.

Since the meeting of Drongen, the phase of raising awareness and collection of contributions from the base groups and communities led to the gathering of numerous contributions gathered in an accessible "Dropbox" Council 50 by clicking on

The meeting of Rome from 20 till 22 November is completely organized. The program, the list and the contents of workshops, the skeleton of the Charter Council 50, as well as various activities (fair, prayers and liturgy) are finalized. They were sent to all the participants with letter n°4. The program is joined to this report. Those who did not receive letter 4 can ask for it to François Becker Will gather in Rome about hundred delegates, of whom a good third is not European, representing groups or communities from 27 countries (5 from Latin American countries, the USA, 4 from Asian countries, 7 countries from Africa and 10 countries from Europe).

Until now the contacts with Vatican are fruitless, in spite of the numerous letters sent to various cardinals and bishops. But numerous personalities support the project and constituted a Committee of Recommandation. Several of them sent a message to the participants which will be read during the opening session. The setup of a solidarity fund was strongly abounded, essentially by the European, for an amount of about 36,700-euros. It allowed to finance the journeys and to support the stay of 30 delegates coming from distant countries for an amount of approximately 21,000 euros, to contribute to the organization of the meeting and to reduce the cost of the participation to the meeting to a minimum: 150 euros for two days, all included. A media plan was set up under the responsibility of Christian Weisner. An article was published in Adista in Italian : http://www.adista.it/articolo/55490

All the members of the group of coordination present to the EN-RE Annual meeting will attend the Council 50 meeting.